Hosted by OSOS , contributed by Rclarke on 3 July 2018
Develop a community garden for the school where students and the community at large can work together to learn about growing crops, maintaining biodiversity and sustainability and caring for the environment
Feel
We organised a grand launch of our project to get as many people as possible interested. Here is the newspaper report.. well it would be if we could attach the files
Imagine
We first stopped the gardner from mowing the grass in our wildlife area and then set about planning our garden for all year round use. This was fun because all of us had different ideas about how we should do it. Here are some pictures of our plans.
Create
We were lucky to get the offer of a lot of materials from interested groups. For example Dublin City University were very helpful and paid for a lorryload of recycled scaffolding boards to make raised beds with. The council arranged for transport of 120 tonnes of topsoil from a housing estate that was being build nearby. We managed to get 100 tonnes of cobblelock paving that was destined for landfill so that we can use our garden even when the ground is wet without getting dirty. Intel helped alot and provided 16 apple trees for our orchard and a lot of seeds form Irish Seedsavers which does heritage varieties. The Kildare beekeepers came and planted four bee friendly trees as well.